Questão d9bc4bbf-f1
Prova:UNICAMP 2018
Disciplina:Inglês
Assunto:Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
‘Yes, I’m Italian – but I’m not loud, I don’t
gesticulate and I’m not good with pizza’
Elena Ferrante
I love my country, but I have no patriotic spirit and no
national pride. What’s more, I digest pizza poorly, I eat very
little spaghetti, I don’t speak in a loud voice, I don’t
gesticulate, I hate all mafias, I don’t exclaim “Mamma mia!”
National characteristics are simplifications that should be
contested. Being Italian, for me, begins and ends with the
fact that I speak and write in the Italian language.
Put that way it doesn’t seem like much, but really it’s a lot.
A language is a compendium of the history, geography,
material and spiritual life, the vices and virtues, not only of
those who speak it, but also of those who have spoken it
through the centuries. When I say that I’m Italian because I
write in Italian, I mean that I’m fully Italian in the only way
that I’m willing to attribute to myself a nationality. I don’t like
the other ways, especially when they become nationalism,
chauvinism, and imperialism.
(Adaptado de Elena Ferrante, ‘Yes, I´m Italian – but I´m not loud, I don´t
gesticulate and I´m not good with pizza’, The Guardian, 24/02/2018.)
Transcrevem-se, a seguir, versos de canções brasileiras e
de um poema de Vinícius de Moraes. Assinale a alternativa
que melhor exemplifica as afirmações de Elena Ferrante.
‘Yes, I’m Italian – but I’m not loud, I don’t
gesticulate and I’m not good with pizza’
Elena Ferrante
I love my country, but I have no patriotic spirit and no
national pride. What’s more, I digest pizza poorly, I eat very
little spaghetti, I don’t speak in a loud voice, I don’t
gesticulate, I hate all mafias, I don’t exclaim “Mamma mia!”
National characteristics are simplifications that should be
contested. Being Italian, for me, begins and ends with the
fact that I speak and write in the Italian language.
Put that way it doesn’t seem like much, but really it’s a lot.
A language is a compendium of the history, geography,
material and spiritual life, the vices and virtues, not only of
those who speak it, but also of those who have spoken it
through the centuries. When I say that I’m Italian because I
write in Italian, I mean that I’m fully Italian in the only way
that I’m willing to attribute to myself a nationality. I don’t like
the other ways, especially when they become nationalism,
chauvinism, and imperialism.
(Adaptado de Elena Ferrante, ‘Yes, I´m Italian – but I´m not loud, I don´t
gesticulate and I´m not good with pizza’, The Guardian, 24/02/2018.)
Transcrevem-se, a seguir, versos de canções brasileiras e
de um poema de Vinícius de Moraes. Assinale a alternativa
que melhor exemplifica as afirmações de Elena Ferrante.
A
“Eu me sinto um estrangeiro.” (Engenheiros do Hawaii,
“A revolta dos dândis”.)
B
“Pátria Amada, é pra você esta canção/Desesperada,
canção de desilusão.” (Inocentes, “Pátria amada”.)
C
“Minha pátria é minha língua.” (Caetano Veloso,
“Língua”.)
D
“Se me perguntarem o que é a minha pátria, direi:/ Não
sei. De fato, não sei (...).” (Vinícius de Moraes, “Pátria
minha”.)
